A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Quotes
The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.
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My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive. We won that fight, and once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow.
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On the Left, the best and brightest go into politics - Barack Obama is the epitome of the perfect leftist. On the Right, the best and brightest go make money. Very few conservatives want to endure all the nonsense you have to put up with to run for office.
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Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the most notorious animal stories.
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Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.
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Catalan politics emancipated from the Spanish politics on September 27, 2015. Since then, we've acted with a sovereign mentality, political sovereignty.
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So my one kid's 4, my other kid's 4 months, I'm 44, Barack Obama is the 44th president - it's all lining up nicely here.
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I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
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We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.
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Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
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There are no friends at cards or world politics.
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The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.
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For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.
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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
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Politics is the one field you don't age out of.
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The biggest accomplishment, in racial terms, for Barack Obama was being elected. He had to overcome his blackness to be elected. He climbed the Mt. Everest of American politics, becoming an historic first.
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In politics, you never know who's going to die, retire, or - in Illinois - get indicted.
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The baby boomers' politics have covered a wide band of silliness, from the Weather Underground to the Timothy McVeigh types. The great majority of us are well in the middle of that spectrum, but still, there's been both leftie silliness and right-wing silliness.
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I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... an Arctic region covered with ice.
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There were times when I thought I would never own a car.
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My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.
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The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.
